ONGC gets indigenously developed rigs

They use advanced hydraulic technology, says manufacturer

Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL), the diversified infrastructure company, has handed over an indigenously built oil and gas drilling rig to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in Gujarat on Thursday. This is part of a ₹6,000-crore tender bagged by MEIL in 2019 to supply 47 rigs to the ONGC’s order of 47 rigs comprising 20 workover rigs and 27 land drilling rigs. By March next, the company is set to deliver 23 rigs to the ONGC with 14 now in transportation to locations across India. As per the arrangement, the MEIL will manufacture and deliver the rigs to ONGC assets in Assam (Shib Sagar, Jorhat), Andhra Pradesh (Rajamahendravaram), Gujarat (Ahmedabad, Ankleshwar, Mehsana and Cambay), Agartala (Tripura) and Tamil Nadu (Karaikal). After getting a contract from the ONGC to manufacture 47 rigs, the company had bought out an Italian company, Drill Mac, in 2019. “These automated rigs are using advanced hydraulic technology acquired from the takeover of Drill Mac,” the MEIL officials said at the site while handing over the rig to ONGC oil field near Gandhinagar on Thursday.